I am not sure where Betty lives, but if a Tornado or Hurricane comes
through this area, we can all end up going a week or maybe less
without power. During the summer it is just stifling.
If I could afford Solar I would do it, it just makes sense down
here. But I do have a gas water heater so hot water is readily
available, plus camp stoves and propane grill.
Stewart
At 09:42 AM 2/27/2009, you wrote:
No. Even if there's a malfunction, the pilot lights are cleverly
designed so that if the oxygen levels in the room lower, they go out.
But normally gas burns pretty much completely, only leaving a bit of
moisture in the air. It's said that after many, many years you can
detect a darkening in a room from unvented gas. But by then most
people would have painted and replaced furniture anyway.
This thread is bouncing all over the place though, straying from units
that require no electricity at all to those that require some. e.g.
Any unit without a pilot light will obviously require power (or
mechanical assist) to ignite. All pellet stoves require power for the
feed mechanism to operate.
I think what threw us is when Betty said she has week long power
failures all the time, and she doesn't want a whole house generator,
so she just hunkers down and toughs it out in her solar house. That's
such a rare combination of circumstances in the U.S. it's left us all
confused.
Rev. Stewart A. Marshall
mailto:popoz...@earthlink.net
Prince of Peace www.princeofpeaceozark.org
Ozark, AL SL 82
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